The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

Problem:

You want to convert the script text is written in.

Solution:

The Transliterator from icu4j class allows for easy conversion of text from one writing system to another.  To transliterate text you simply get an instance of the Transliterator class using the id of the writing system you are converting from, and the id of the system you want to convert into, and then call the transliterate method on the object.